The sgraffito process is consisted of making the clay into a square and cutting around the edges to make a curve like structure. You then paint the top of the clay black and start tracing the design you want on the piece. After you trace the piece you then carve it out. After it is carved out you fire the piece in the kiln. I did not finish my piece but the idea I had was to make a surfboard carve out. I wanted to do this because I enjoy surfing and thought it would be a cool unique design that no one has done before. The process of sgraffito takes a while but I missed a lot of class due to heath problems so I was not able to complete my piece.
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1.Some of the tools that i used during this class was a scoring scrapper, needle tool, loop tool, x acto knife, and a modeling tool. By using these tools it helped me carve and cut clay into the shapes i wanted and helped me mold it together.
The artist who made this is Kate sierzputowski. The location of this piece is in Hong Kong. The material is an inflatible. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/about/ . The reason this draws me in is because I just thought it was a really cool and unique piece. I like the ocean a lot and it’s cool to just see art in the ocean and it just floating like it’s meant to be there. It makes me feel relaxed and that life is just a stream and I just kee floating a long.
The process of paper mache we used was wrapping the wings in tinfoil and then making a mixture of flower and water with paper so it would stick and make it hard. Our piece was successful and I like how it turned out because it was very smooth and we spray painted it to look like a galaxy. It was difficult because it took a long time and we had to be very careful with it. The paper towels on the wings were very hard to wrap around it and paint at the same time. We did about 3 layers which was pretty stable but if we were to do it again I would do about 4-5 layers
I designed a basketball for my tripod mug. The process of making the mug was sketching it out and I was going to put a handle with a hoop but changed my idea and wanted to put pencils in it instead of drinking out of it. So during the process I molded the clay into a tripod mug then had to carve out the basketball shape into the mug. It was very challenging and one thing I would change is the tool i used because it kept going too deep and breaking the mug so I had to repair it a lot. Another thing I would change is adding black to the lines to make it look more real. I tried using some texture but when it was painted it kind of went away. I really liked the color I used a lot and found it very successful.
Clay slab- a construction technique where clay is rolled into thin sheets and manipulated into shapes. |
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